Cross-platform software

Amidst reports linking the messaging app Telegram to the recruitment of gunmen involved in a recent attack near Moscow, the Kremlin has issued a warning to the app's owner, Pavel Durov, urging him to exercise caution.

Social media app TweetDeck has begun going behind a paywall on, with users of platform X, formerly known as Twitter, being diverted to a paid-subscription sign-up page when they tried to access it.

Instant messaging service Telgram has removed the group Oralna podrška (Oral support) with over 50,000 members - one of the largest Serbian Telegram groups that shared women's intimate photos and videos, as well as porn content - along with 12 other groups that published revenge porn.

In the aftermath of a train crash in 2017, a technical report was drafted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, citing shortcomings and proposing measures for the Greek railway network. It now appears prophetic after last week's deadliest-ever rail accident in Greece.

On Thursday, Bitcoin was down 1.1%, ending the day at around .5K, despite a buoyant stock market performance. Selling resumed on Friday morning, pushing the price back to .9K.
The observed divergence is bucking the trend of close correlation that has developed over the last few days.

The nosedive in cryptocurrencies has hit the metaverse as the value of a virtual land parcel in Istanbul has decreased by 70 percent on metaverse platforms.

In OVR, a metaverse platform where some 1.6 trillion parcels of global lands are on sale, an average parcel price in Istanbul was around 200 Turkish Liras ($12.40). Today, it is around 60 liras ($3.73).

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Vitalik Buterin, a Russian-born Canadian programmer and one of the co-founders of cryptocurrency Ethereum, has landed in Istanbul, a Turkish influencer on board the same plane with Buterin announced on April 11.

"Fellas! No Joke! But yes, Vitalik Buterin," Orkun Işıtmak wrote in a social media post with a photo of him with Buterin at Istanbul Airport.

The idea of spending millions on non-existent land may sound ludicrous - but feverish predictions of a virtual reality future are pushing investors to bet big on digital real estate.

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